1. BUSINESS DATA ANALYSIS

2. By A Full-Time Business Data Analysis Consultant
Michael Olafusi is a Microsoft Excel expert and experienced trainer. He loves Excel so much
that he quit his job in the Telecoms industry to focus on doing the impossible
with Excel.
He began his career as a Radio Access Engineer for Nokia Siemens Networks,
then as a Business and MIS Analyst for Comviva Technologies doing revenue
and KPI analysis for Airtel Africa CRBT operations in 10 African countries, and
finally moved to 21st Century Technologies as a Performance Analyst and
Service Delivery Lead.
He is the training director of UrBizEge and is planning to revolutionize the
entire business data analysis industry in Nigeria. And he is also the only Excel
MVP in Africa and first ever Excel MVP from Nigeria.

3. Global Business Is Powered By Data
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4. The Ability To Analyze Data Is Now Vital
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5. Who Needs This Business Data Analysis Training?
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Project Managers 05
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6. Data Manipulation

7. Data Consistency
As an Excel user, a lot of all your work in Excel will be interconnected and constantly evolving.
We will cover the general rules you have to follow to make reports and analysis that can scale and be consistently used even as the projects you work on grow.

8. Data Types
Everything you type into Excel falls into one of four data types. They form the foundation of all you do in Excel.
They are:
Number
Text
Boolean
Formula

9. Planning for Scalability
In planning for scalability, you always have to
Always work with the end in mind
Use a pre-determined naming scheme of files, worksheets and data fields
Name every sheet and file from the start
Avoid having too many tables in one Excel sheet
and many others…

10. Data Sorting
Sorting is one of the power user’s most used tool. It allows you to present data in an ordered fashion.
We’ll cover:
Top to Bottom sorting
Cascaded sorting (by multiple levels)
Left to Right sorting (advanced)
Sorting by cell or font color

11. Data Filtering
Excel allows you to hide (or filter out) data with field entries you are not interested in.
We’ll cover even special features of Filter.
Filter enables you to make dynamic charts when used in a summary table
Filter allows for arithmetic operation on the non-hidden data

12. Data Cleaning
Oftentimes the data we have is not in the form we need. We have to do some data cleaning.
Removal of Duplicate entries
Text-to-column to break a field to multiple fields
Subtotal and Grouping to make reports less clumsy
Data Validation to prevent errors

13. Data Formatting
No one will appreciate the numerous hours you’ve spent in Excel if your result is not well formatted. It’s like interior design, it gives beauty and value to your work.
Format as Table
Formatting for Print
Formatting for
Having the recipient or final user in mind

14. Charts

15. Chart Types Line Chart and when to use it
Column Chart and when to use it
Bar Chart and when to use it
Pie Chart and when to use it
Other Charts
Sparklines

16. Combo Charts
Excel allows you to combine 2 or more charts on the same graph.
When to do this
How to do this
Using the same horizontal axis but two different vertical axes

17. Best Practices
Be careful about using a 3D chart for business reporting
Use line charts to show trend over a period of time
Use Column charts to show performance of independent metrics
Use Bar charts when column charts will be too clumsy in display
and many more …

18. Pivot Table & Chart

19. PivotTable
PivotTable allows you to do instant analysis on a large data table.
Default PivotTable
Different Fields
Applying Filter
Changing field values
Tabular PivotTable
Using Formulas on Pivot table values
PivotTable Tricks

20. PivotChart & PowerPivot
PivotChart is simply a chart of the PivotTable.
The unique features of the Pivot Chart
PowerPivot is an addin for Excel 2010, but fully built into Excel 2013 & Excel 2016
It allows you to work with more external database and also on very large database.

21. Business Data Analysis

22. General Tools Of Analysis
Naming Sheets
Moving and Copying sheets
Inserting Sheets and Tab Color
Linking Sheets in formula, special tips
Freezing Panes and Splitting Windows
Different Views – Normal, Page Layout and Page Break Preview

23. Lookup Functions VLOOKUP HLOOKUP
Looking up the last data in a row or column
Overcoming the limitations of VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP using INDEX and MATCH
Creative use of LOOKUP

24. Power Functions IF, SUMPRODUCT, RAND, IFERROR…
AND, OR, TEXT, LEFT, RIGHT, MID,…
Text functions and special tricks
COUNTIFS, SUMIFS and AVERAGEIFS
Using the formula tab creatively
Formula auto-complete
Formula Evaluation

25. Named Range, Goal Seek, Scenario Manager and Solver
Named Range and its practical uses
Goal Seek and a very interesting practical example
Scenario Manager and a typical use
Solver and its use in solving practical business decision and production problems. Linear programming.

26. Reports & Dashboards

27. Features of a Dashboard
A screen view summary that is visual and automated
Knowing how to pick the important metrics to visualize
Knowing how to make a dynamic dashboard
Letting the dashboard answer the most important questions
and many more …

28. Professional Reports Best Practices Having an Almighty sheet
Knowing what to send and what to keep
Having the report audience in mind
s: Done right the Excel way
Excel reports and printing
Power BI

29. Excel to PowerPoint

30. Excel to PowerPoint Linking Charts in PowerPoint to Excel
Embedding Excel sheets in PowerPoint
Formatting Tables in PowerPoint
Formatting Charts in PowerPoint
PowerPoint tips

31. Excel VBA

32. Excel VBA Why you might someday need VBA Recording Macros
The Limitations of recorded Macros
The easy way to writing your VBA program
Getting vital help

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